Breakfast Thieves

A near perfect breakfast experience on our first visit to this lovely gem. Perfect items: flatwhite coffee, Geisha and French Affair, scrambled eggs, sauteed mushrooms, beetroot/​gin cured trout. Near Perfect: Croissant (it had the perfect flavour but the texture was slightly on the tough side). V happy with the service too! Plus v clean restroom and free wifi! #HighlyRecommended!

There’s a coolness and composure about Breakfast Thieves that really impresses me. It all seems to flow quite nicely between the floor staff, kitchen and barista. The semi-​open kitchen provides a certain theatre to the overall experience which is lovely. It feels like you get to peep behind the curtains, making the dining experience all the more engaging.
The floor staff are all very lovely, at-​ease and in a down to Earth sort of way. I went for Breakfast Thieve’s «The Legend», comprised of baked eggs with chorizo and a side of warm, butter, crunchy bread. Although nothing spectacular in that it’s just baked eggs with chorizo, it was tasty and I would order it again. The cold drip was refreshing and a nice, clean way to round out the meal.
There is a sneaky selection of sweets presented behind some glass cabinetry near the counter. We were overindulged as it was, so unfortunately this was not to be on this particular occasion, but offerings that include Nutella and salted caramel are enough to bring me back.

This is a nice little café. Here you’ll get a slight different twist to the ordinary breakfast. The majority of their menu has a twist of spice — slightly Moroccan or Middle Eastern in nature. So obviously if you do not like that kind of food you might not like it here. They also do a few pastries and desserts if you are more inclined that way.
This place is as hipster as they come, with shared tables and all. So in saying that, this place is extremely popular. I have known people waiting for a good 30 minutes for a table. Honestly, I never wait for anything, so I wouldn’t.
The coffee here is good — not as good as Industry beans (but not much is). But it is still quite good. A lot more smoother then I preferred, but it wasn’t that big of a problem.
The staff here are also nice, but extremely busy, so sometimes you are going to have to wave them down, or give them ‘that look’.

This is everything a café should be. Clever, delicious food. Wonderfully friendly service staff (with added accents). Stylish design (reminds me of Berlin). The only downside is that it’s hard to find somewhere to park.

Maybe I’m missing something, but how do you steal breakfast? It will come to me sooner of later, but at this time I am completely stumped. Anyway, this is another of those discoveries that I made while persuing the internet at work (yes, I know, I’m supposed to be working, but sometimes a little break can put your mind back in order). Anyway, I decided that any place that goes by the name ‘Breakfast Thieves’ is certainly some place that I had to check out. Anyway, it was pretty cool — one of those hip and trendy cafes hidden away in an old factory in Fiztroy. It certainly was popular and their bircher muesli was pretty cool. They also made my tea the way I like it. Oh, I should also mention that they do have a list of specialties, and while the standard fare is always available, why not try something new?

I loved this place. The service was great, the food was exceptional and the restaurant is adorable. I got the breakfast chain, which consisted of two soft boiled eggs, English cheddar soldiers, passion fruit & mango trifle with granola and Apple & blueberry almond crumble. So really you’re getting everything you could ever want from a breakfast and all perfectly portioned. Highly recommend, if I was staying longer I’d want to try each item on the menu.

Produce was good. Coffee was OK. Seated immediately. But they didn’t have Maple Syrup!!!

Eclectic offering of all-​day breakfast grub. Pretty unique menu. Nice friendly environment

Phenomenal food, friendly service and great atmosphere! The smashed avocado is brilliant!

Free wifi brings all the boys to the yard. During breakfast and lunch periods you’ll find a mixed crowd, but during the lull hours in between you’ll find a dude and his laptop perched at every table. Here for coffee and food with a side of work time. Admittedly, that’s why I came to Breakfast Thieves too (to steal the wifi as much as breakfast), but it’s definitely worth a venture in regardless of motives.
Stripped back Fitzroy-​standard fit out with an interesting breakfast and lunch menu, as well as smaller dishes like pastries from La Madre Bakery. I was eyeing off the tea smoked trout with soba noodles, but needing something a little on the smaller side opted to devour their ham, cheese and relish croissant — very tasty.
The coffee menu appears to have a few different roasters on. They list STREAT on the menu, but I also saw some offerings from Rumble coffee, with Small Batch on filter. Already on a bit of a coffee binge, I took a breather with a refreshing peppermint tea from their Larsen & Thompson tea list.
It gets a bit noisy when it fills up, but all in all a great little café.

Great spot for breakfast. Most things are solid on the menu

Love the coffee here and it’s a nice spot to sit outside in Winter. There’s a super warm heater and you can play with all the puppies that walk by! Delicious breakfast too.

Great coffee and really good take away breads. I like the food but I would love a menu change sometime soon. My favourite way to breakfast here is to order a range of sides (weird but it works) or grab a savoury muffin. All the sides are great think slow cooked and perfectly seasoned tomatoes, lemon av smash, house cured ocean trout, home made hash browns, no need for extra salt mushrooms. There is a fair bit of deep fried on the menu which isn’t always my cup of tea when it comes to breaky time. The baked vego eggs are my pick of the menu but if you are there after 11:30 the salads especially the smoked salmon/​beetroot/​quinoa salad is amazing. And filling. The baked eggs with chorizo is quite rich so maybe not suited to early morning. The fritters are super spicy and can be a bit too much for some people but if you are a chilly fan and hungover these are pretty delicious (deep fried). The traditional malay breakfast dish is not for the faint hearted and the eggs are really really runny/​not real cooked. Do not order this after a big night. The combo breakfast is also pretty good (boiled egg + granola) and also like a two course meal without being too heavy. The porridge that can be vegan with either banana or strawberries is pretty good i would recommend going the banana version.
Staff are great. Coffee is quick. Love the interior. There are a couple of outdoor tables to sit on that have a pretty high rotation under plain trees that are perfect for people watching. Also there is a nice outdoor stool to sit on when waiting for a coffee/​table on a sunny day. Free wifi. Not open mondays.

Definitely one of my favourite meals! Walked into Breakfast Thieves with no expectations, it was just close by, but I promise I’ll be back again soon.
What a lovely surprise. Pretty sophisticated menu, not at all what I had expected from the outside. I had French Toast with candied bacon, brûlée banana, lemon curd & cherry tomatoes. I thought the cherry tomatoes were a lil out of place, however cherry tomatoes with lemon curd & banana, WOW!!! The whole meal, WOW!
I feel so happy just remembering this meal. The crispy bacon and fresh French toast… Breakfast Thieves do breakfast right!
But they also pull off a great burger, as full as I was I couldn’t resist trying a little bit of my friends and it was equally impressive. Put this great food together with friendly service and a cosy little atmosphere, Breakfast Thieves deserves 5 stars.

You may have to wait a while for a table, and the seating arrangements may confuse, but this smallish corner café is golden!
Don’t worry if it takes 45 minutes to get a table, because once you’re seated and you’ve squizzed over the menu, you’ll be drooling all over it.
It offers one of the most appealing menus around, where every option reads so well, it’s extremely difficult to decide on what to order. I tried the ‘Spanish Gypsy Dance’: Crisp-​polenta crusted poached eggs, Spanish morcilla (black pudding), peperonata and wild rocket on toasted multigrain with a side of avocado, bacon and a potato rosti. It just doesn’t get any better than that! All of our meals were delicious and presented like works of art.
Inside, the café has a rustic vibe. Fresh flowers, white tiles, exposed bricks and succulents in small glass milk bottles decorate the space. There’s tall tables that skirt around the café walls and then there’s a few big share tables in the centre. Those share tables make for awkward seating if you’re in a group as you’re likely to be seated in an L-​shape around it. I’m sure if they were individual tables, they’d be a lot less wait time, but hey, it’s not my café!
Although the café was extremely busy, coffee and food wait time was surprisingly not long at all. Coffee was good and the food even better. With all the unique and interesting dishes coming out of the kitchen, we’ve already planned our next visit back. I think I’ll be dreaming of the ‘Leprechaun’ from now until then: Crisp fried corn fritters on rosemary roasted carrot purée with avocado-​yuzu mousse, pickled cucumber pomegranate salad and poached eggs.
Staff were friendly and if you prefer the fresh air, there’s a small outdoor area along the footpath.
Tip: No heaters, so rug up if you plan to sit outside.

The staff here were quite nice, although a bit aloof.
The menu looked really appetising with a wide variety of different options, although maybe I should have been tipped off at some of the more unusual food groupings.
I got the baked eggs, which were bland when the overpowering use of chilli flakes weren’t disguising the over salted parts of the dish. You might be confused with my use of the word bland — but what I mean by that is, it was just an odd experience of «eh».

I vaguely remember stumbling in through the door after a night out with a craft beer sales rep and their head brewer. Needless to say the previous 9 hours had been rough on me as we shuffled over to the nearest table I focused on alternating covering one eye and trying to read the menu.
It was the beer rep, my friend and melbourne local who had suggested the place, I’d mentioned I was in the mood for some baked eggs and suddenly we were off, «Baked eggs?! I’ve heard good things about this place… I don’t remember where or who or when… but good things»
The place looked nice, and the coffee was great, but that’s a given with a lot of these new cafes I was more interested in the menu, and what a menu! unfortunately I was short sighted I only had eyes for one thing.
The Legend.
Baked eggs with tomato, mushrooms, peas and chorizo and garlic sough-​dough toast and sprinkled with feta, it was mine as long as I could add bacon; charred darker than that last imperial stout I’d only just started to remember drinking.
I made my order, with such conviction it woke the other two who still hadn’t been able to process the words on the menu into anything edible and they promptly ordered the same.
I don’t remember how long it was until it came, but I assume that it wasn’t long or I would have been grumpy, but oh my god. That meal I still dream about, I have a picture of it in my wallet that I would take to war, it was spicy so spicy my eyes watered… or was I crying? no matter, as I looked at my comrades the feeling was the same across the board. Our noses running, the odd murmur and the tear of crispy bacon was all that was decipherable. Now I’ve had my fair share of baked eggs with chorizo in my time, it’s turned into an Australian brunch staple coming off the specials and making the cut on the winter menus… but never have I had such perfection that was The Legend that day. Hell I’m writing this review 6 months after it happened and I still can’t stop thinking about it.
We all left feeling considerably better than when we’d arrived, and that is what a Sunday morning brunch should do, I don’t remember the staff, the price, or even where it was. Who cares? Only the stereotypical iphone shot of the menu and the meal means that I can even tell you the name.
But it was good. Well done Breakfast Thieves. You done good.

I liked the atmosphere of this little café with the big communal dining table and they were very very kid friendly, but the two things I wasnt so impressed with were the hot chocolate (too watery) and the prices (too high).
The really good thing was the lovely selection of cakes — we had a little blueberry cakey thing and a white chocolate lamington — but tasted nice but they were so heavy that we all (3 adults and 2 kids) just felt far too full afterwards. Even one of my 3 year olds left some of it! And the hot chocolate was not up to standard — it was too watery and seemed to be more focused on being sweet rather than thick. It wasnt bad, but it couldve been better.
I found the price rather disturbing too — it was $ 38 for 3 hot drinks, 2 babycinos and about 7 or 8 small cakes…
I dont want this review to make the place sound bad — because it isnt a bad place, it just has a few small issues which it needs to get sorted out.
PS: the staff were very nice — which is always a good thing in a café — and a hot chocolate was free after they took too long to bring it out.

Off from the hustle of Brunswick St, and into the residential streets lies Breakfast Thieves. Consistently with a line of fans flocking out front, this Fitztory café has delivered some of the best combination breakfasts I’ve had. Try something out of the ordinary and go the Spanish gypsy wrap!

The Breakfast Thieves is in this quaint little corner on Gore Street close to the Rose Street Artist Market in Collingwood. As you approach the café, it feels like you’re transported to a quiet street lined with trees that doesn’t feel like Melbourne at all.
My friend and I came at about 10.30am on a Saturday and the wait was less than 5 minutes. She had a smoked salmon benedict, and I had corn fritters. They were both really well seasoned and tasty. Table service was really good too.
All in all, I would recommend going to Breakfast Thieves for a brilliant brunch in a gorgeous location.